Word Family Friday
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“fate of Linear B” reminds me of how cool it is that many Cypriot syllabary symbols are recognizably related to Linear B, still being used in e.g. the Idalion bilingual in 388 BCE (you can see glyph relation graphs like this at lab.aidanem.com/explorer/cha...)
The Icelandic word for "etymology" is "orðsifjar" which is approximately "word-siblingry" 😀 It also includes three of the most ubiquitous PIE roots: *dʰeh₁-: "to do, to put, to place" *swé: "self, reflexive pronoun" *bʰuH-: "to become, grow, appear" plus *werh₁-: "to speak, to say"
And! that third (first) "from"—the one in "cunde"—really is basically the same "from" also! "de donde" ← *de-h₁ de-h₁ kʷom-de 😆
quite likely ultimately related words 😀 (I also think it's an undercounted possibility that a Norman version of "ǿgir" may have been the influence in Old French's alteration of "orc(o)" to "ogre")
Temujin (Genghis Khan) and Timurlane, from Turkic *temür: "iron"
"urushiol" gathering etymology from • Old Japanese *uru: "wet" • Sino-Tibetan *r-tsij: "plant juice, medicine, paint" • wherever Greek got ἐλαία: "olive" from • possible influence from wherever West Semitic got *kḥl: "kohl" from
It is the right and proper state of a people or nation to be free, generous, honorable, hairy, libertine, and liberal children and vegetables. (On the meanings of *h₁lewdʰ-) www.aidanem.com/word-family-...
Brief mention of "Goliath" as a possible form of 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤𐤯𐤤𐤮 <walwetes>/Alyattēs: "Lion/Lion-ness" (derived abstract noun, not feminine) 😄 In Anatolian the equivalent of *wl̥kʷós means "lion" instead of "wolf", as in other branches. There are many names derived from welkʷ-/wl̥kʷós, across IE! some:
12yo's current favorite fact is that "ampersand" is "and per se and". I think he got it from a @robwords.com video 😄 (It's come up a lot recently while I tried to fix graphing for the "&" character, and others with special meanings in html)
Tau Day! 6.28[...] the true circle constant! Tau (the letter)'s relatives or possible relatives include T, ت, ᛏ, 𐩩, ተ, ת, त, ត, Ⱅ, ᠲ, 𐱆, ... (all these make /t/ or /ta/ sounds)
"Neither Meredith nor young Eric judge either age or injury or hygiene (Ayurvedic or medieval)" 14 of 14 from Proto-Indo-European <*h₂ey->»1: "life, age, vital, eternal" 😆
I just learned the phrase "grenouille de bénitier": "a font-frog", someone who is always hanging around church, a god-botherer 😆 Though apparently at the Basilica of Saint-Paul-Serge de Narbonne, there is a literal grenouille de bénitier!
Whereas the word "giraffe" itself is from Classical Perisan زرناپا <zornâpâ>: "flute-leg" 😀 From the same roots as a Latin construction like "cornuped"!
πολύπους in the 13C BCE 😄🐙 (ta-ra-nu , a-ja-me-no , e-re-pa-te-jo , a-to-ro-qo , i-qo-qe , po-ru-po-de-qe , po-ni-ke-qe, 𐃄) (footstool, inlaid with ivory: a man and a horse and an octopus and a date palm)
Hawaiʻian kai: "sea" and Japanese 海/かい/kai: "ocean, sea", definitely no relation. They come from *tasik and something like *m̥ˤəʔ, respectively On the other hand, Hawaiʻian ʻīlio: "dog" and Japanese 犬/いぬ/inu: "dog" are plausibly (but not certainly) related, from something like *(ŋ)kuɣ(kuɣ)
The Script Explorer on lab.aidanem can now generate Letter Family graphs! lab.aidanem.com/explorer/cha...
Combining two recent posts (1. Linear B = modern words in bronze age writing and 2. "fedora" = "Theodora") Here is a record of people named "Alexandra" and "Theodora" from Mycenae about 3300 years ago 😀
That last genus among the extinct camelids is _Camelops_: "camel-face". One of the better known species of _Camelops_ is _Camelops hesternus_: "yesterday's camel-face" One of my favorite sp. names 😁
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-: "to do" is everywhere! "Ver(b)ing with Ver(v)e, Wor(d)s for E(d)i(f)ication and Pro(f)it — An od(d) wor(d) (f)amily (d)one with en(th)usiasm by Ai(d)an"
These marks: {} can be called either "brace" or "bracket" ... but there's no etymological connection between those two words! One is related to "bra" and the other is related to "britches" 😅